Object-oriented design of an expandable hardware description language analyzer for a high-level synthesis system

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to high-level synthesis system design in which object-oriented programming techniques are used to construct an expansible Hardware Description Language(HDL) analyzer. There are several major advantages of this new methodology over the traditional top-down approaches, The object-oriented data model for high-level synthesis systems is shown to be a better way to model the high-level synthesis design entities. A formal Object Oriented Programming(O0P model of high-level synthesis and systematic ways o f) expanding the system are also described. This design style influences the construction of the entire high-level synthesis system. The system has been successfully implemented an C++ and has proven to be reliable, expansible, and suficiently fast.